Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.
Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again.
On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.
Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.
. . . the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.
Never underestimate the power of intention.
Never underestimate your own capacity to care.
We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.
Never underestimate the desire to bolt.
I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.
Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.
In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.
Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day.
Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.
People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts